Writer: Tiffany Whisner, Coles Marketing Lose weight. Exercise. Eat healthier. Stay fit. Enjoy life more. Run a marathon. These are some of the most common — and most commonly broken — New Year’s resolutions. In the U.S., nearly half of people make New Year’s resolutions each year, and many of them revolve around better health. […]
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What’s the Expression?
As human beings, we often express our needs and wants through communication, may it be verbally or through our expressions. However, children with autism generally don’t understand how to express themselves in different situations. The maker behind What’s the Expression? acknowledges this and has thus developed the app to help children learn to express different emotions (e.g. happiness, surprise, […]
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Steve Gleason Act cuts red tape for those with ALS
Thanks to Steve Gleason, people who require speech generating devices won’t have to cut through so much red tape. A former football star, Gleason led the charge to make speech-generating devices more readily accessible after he was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. Individuals with ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — are at […]
Learn ABC’s of Sign Language with Fingerspelling Blocks
Looking for a fun, interactive way to teach your child fingerspelling? The Fingerspelling Blocks is an ideal, hands-on toy designed to teach young children (ages 3 and up) how to fingerspell! All 26 letters of the English alphabet are included in the Fingerspelling Blocks with corresponding sign language hand shapes molded on top. According to the […]
Top 7+ Assistive Technologies of 2015!
With good ol’ Saint Nick paying a visit in just over a week, many of us are busy wrapping gifts and planning our holiday events. The month of December has just flown by–as has each month of 2015! With the new year coming oh-so-soon, I always like to write a post reflecting on the top assistive technologies of the […]
SwiftKey Symbols: symbol-based communication app
Over a year ago, I wrote about four different assistive keyboards available on iOS devices. The first keyboard I mentioned in the post was SwiftKey, a free keyboard app that adapts to the user. More recently, the same company has released SwiftKey Symbols, a symbol-based assistive communication app. The Symbols keyboard is currently only available for Android devices and is “targeted at (but […]